The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ... millions of years from now eastern Africa will split from the continent to form a new landmass. A mid-ocean ridge would then mark ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer ... Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart, around 200 million years ago.

But don't worry, the continent isn't about to collapse. These are incredibly slow geological processes, happening over ...

In a remarkable geological finding, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that the underside of ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

instead of sinking along with the plate, they crumpled into mountain ranges—the Himalayas. By 10 million years ago the two continents were in direct collision and the Indian continent ...

Plate tectonics have caused the landmasses to ... put a complete split at tens of millions of years from now. "With the continent dividing at a rate of half an inch per year, those estimations ...

Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

Later on, this "continent" was discovered to be two continents ... These basins "tell myriad stories of past climates, ocean currents, plate tectonics, the birth of mountain ranges, ecology ...